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Metriq PRISM Laboratory Announces $5 Million Research Credit Grant Program

Metriq Foundation initiative opens PRISM research capacity to organizations pursuing consequential scientific and technical questions.

CLEARWATER, Fla., September 30, 2026: Metriq PRISM Laboratory, a research laboratory of Metriq Foundation, Inc., today announced a grant program offering up to $5 million in noncash PRISM Research Credits across selected computational research projects. The program invites nonprofits, universities, public bodies and mission-aligned companies to bring forward scientific and technical questions with the potential to advance public benefit.

The premise is straightforward: PRISM works with selected organizations to turn their questions into defined investigations, using mathematics, modeling, simulation, optimization, statistics, machine learning and software to examine the evidence and develop findings the organization can use.

“An important question should not go unanswered simply because the organization asking it does not have a computational research department,” said Daniel H. Jeffery, executive director and chairman of Metriq Foundation. “We want organizations to bring us a problem that matters to them. The grant is a way to put significant research capability behind that problem.”

A project could, for example, examine which conservation strategy is most robust under uncertain conditions, whether a forecasting model holds up against historical observations, or how to allocate limited resources more effectively. Applicants do not need a completed research plan. The starting point is the question, why it matters and what evidence is available.

Research that can be examined

PRISM has published 29 research works spanning mathematics, distributed-system reliability, coral-bleaching analysis, wildfire forecasting and other areas of computational research. Its mathematics program has produced 14 candidate proofs addressing unsolved mathematical problems, alongside computational verification materials and open research artifacts.

The laboratory maintains an open research record, with manuscripts and supporting materials available for examination.

Each funded project must define a public-interest research output. Publication arrangements address confidential material and data rights while establishing what can be shared. Deliverables may include a research report, a model, software or a documented evaluation; the agreed scope determines what is produced.

Support is provided as PRISM research services, not cash payments. The $5 million figure is the program’s aggregate ceiling, valued at PRISM service prices, with research capacity released in approved cohorts. Individual awards depend on selection, an agreed scope, available capacity and signed project agreements. Co-funding may apply to certain pathways, including industry partnerships.

Company-building in service of a public mission

Metriq is a nonprofit technology organization designed to combine two capabilities that are often separated: the ability to build, commercialize and scale technology, and the commitment to a long-term public mission. It builds infrastructure, products and companies as instruments of that mission, with the value they create intended to support further technology development and mission-aligned work.

Metriq Foundation provides the governance and ownership structure for this work. Alongside PRISM Laboratory, its activities include Metriq Dynamics, a Foundation-owned company developing fully autonomous engineering and manufacturing.

“Building useful technology and advancing a public mission should reinforce each other,” Jeffery said. “Through PRISM, we are putting that principle to work by helping organizations pursue the questions that matter to their missions.”

Organizations can review eligibility, applicant resources and the application process at prism.metriq.org/grants/. Initial submissions should contain a nonconfidential project outline rather than raw or protected data. Program and media inquiries may be directed to [email protected].

About Metriq PRISM Laboratory

Metriq PRISM Laboratory is the Program for Research in Intelligent Systems and Methods, a research laboratory of Metriq Foundation, Inc. It investigates difficult mathematical, scientific and technical questions through computational methods, with an emphasis on clear reasoning, reproducible work and evidence that others can examine.

About Metriq Foundation

Metriq Foundation, Inc. is a Florida nonprofit technology organization that builds infrastructure, products and operating companies in service of a long-term public mission. Its work includes Metriq PRISM Laboratory and Metriq Dynamics. The value these activities create is intended to support further technology development and mission-aligned work.